M5 Mac X Colloquio Di Informatica Musicale Aimi

MUSIC 5 MAC Simone Bettini C.S.C, Padova University Via Gradenigo, 6a, 35100 Padova (Italy) home telephone 0429/86230 E-Mail (internet)space@maya.dei.unipd.it Music V and Music 5 Mac. finally on personal computers. In the beginning Music 5 Mac Music V is, from an historical (M5Mac) was conceived as the point of view, a very important Macintosh port of a PC Music V sound synthesis and music compiler written by Daniel Arfib, composition language. CNRS Marseille [2]. Music V was the last of a A preliminary straight port of series of Music languages carried the compiler resulted in a non out, starting from the end of Macintosh application: in fifties, by Max V. Mathews, particular it lacked a user-friendly researcher at Murray Hill Bell graphical user interface allowing Laboratories [1]. It was the first to simplify and speed up the language to allow the realisation scores writing. It indeed behaved of a virtual digital synthesiser. as every other command line It can be used to define, version of the package: starting from their describing • the composer has to draw on algorithms, the instrument of an paper a directed acyclic graph "orchestra" to which pass a score (DAG) representing the to perform. connections of the components Music V, although it is now of an instrument. used mainly for didactic • the composer himself then purposes, still stands out for its translates this graph in the Music versatility and power and can be V language and completes the considered the first of a whole score adding the instructions generation of music synthesis relative to the motif execution. languages based on the same This sequence of instructions operation principles. goes in a text file. The first Music V compiler • such file is then passed to the was implemented on the General Music V compiler which Electric 650 computer of Bell generates the sample file, Laboratories, then, with the eventually requiring long increase of raw computational computational times. power, on smaller systems and To simplify this lengthy and 321 quite error prone procedure, at the data types: the scores(text) and same time speeding up instrument instruments (DAGs). creation, it was then decided to Besides it can genera…